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Too many middle-class people ‘live by the law’ in jobs like regulatory, compliance and human resources, Chemistry Badenoch said yesterday.
The Conservative Party the leader lamented the rise of the ‘bureaucratic’ class and said Britain needed to return to its ‘entrepreneurial’ roots.
Ms Badenoch said in an interview with Spectator magazine that a number of Tory policy reviews would be asked to ‘think the unthinkable’ as she tries to rebuild the party and stave off the threat of reform from the right.
She criticized Sir Keir Starmerlack of political convictions. And she promised the Tories would go into the next election with ‘plenty of red meat’ in their manifesto.
Ms Badenoch, who has previously vowed to scrap the “bureaucratic state”, said yesterday it had created an entire class with a vested interest in promoting its expansion to the detriment of growth.
She said she would monitor closely Elon Musk‘s success in cutting public waste when Donald Trump returns to The White House.
She added: ‘My diagnosis of what is wrong with our country is that we have stopped being entrepreneurial and have become bureaucratic. The middle class has changed from people who grow things, like farmers, or people who build or make things.
‘It’s biased against people who make a living from the law in one form or another, whether it’s regulation, compliance in banking, HR or public contracts.’
The Conservative party leader lamented the rise of the “bureaucratic” class and said Britain needed to return to its “entrepreneurial” roots
Ms Badenoch also criticized Sir Keir’s failure to shut down recent calls to introduce a new blasphemy law
The Tory leader said she was interested in exploring “how radical you can be on the right” – citing new Argentine President Javier Milei as an influence.
In a separate interview in the Spectator yesterday, Mr. Milei ‘the state is the problem … the public sector is the disease’ and added: ‘If a body has something that harms it – a virus, a bacteria, a bug, a parasite – you extract the parasite.’
Mrs Badenoch also stepped up her attack onwoke up‘ culture infecting public life, describing it as ‘real socialism and communism dressed in the sweet clothes of the civil rights movement’. And she promised ‘radical’ immigration reforms, saying the asylum system ‘is being exploited because we are using a system that was built for the 1950s’.
Asked if she was ready to consider leaving international conventions on refugees, she replied: ‘That’s all.’
The Tory leader defended her decision to hold off on making detailed policy commitments, saying she felt like someone who ‘opens a restaurant in four years’ time and people are demanding to see the menu right now.
But she added: ‘There will be plenty of red meat. This will be a conservative restaurant.’
Ms Badenoch also criticized Sir Keir’s failure to shut down recent calls to introduce a new blasphemy law – an idea she described as ‘madness’ and ‘authoritarian’.
She added: ‘That’s what really worries me about him. I don’t think he has opinions about things’.
In the same interview with the Spectator, she also took aim at Sir Keir for his choices in Christmas films
In the same interview with the Spectator, she also took aim at Sir Keir for his choices in Christmas films.
The Prime Minister was recently mocked as he struggled to name a favorite Christmas film before finally suggesting he could watch ‘Love Actually’.
She also revealed her favorite Christmas movies. Sir Keir Starmer was mocked recently as he struggled to name a favorite Christmas film before finally suggesting he could watch ‘Love Actually’.
Ms Badenoch pointed out that the comedy features a British prime minister who “mess around and doesn’t do foreign policy properly”.
She suggested she’d rather watch the action flick Die Hard, but named Gremlins and Scrooged as her seasonal picks. She said: ‘Die Hard is a good Christmas movie’, a reference to films typically on TV during the Christmas period.
She told the Spectator that she doesn’t put up decorations until Christmas Day, but then she does up her house to ‘look like Santa’s grotto, nothing too cheesy’.
She added: ‘It’s fine if you want to start early, like December 1, but before that people have to be fined for putting up decorations.’
The Tory leader also said she believes sandwiches are ‘not real food’ – as she joked ‘lunch is for wimps’.
The Tory leader also said she believes sandwiches are ‘not real food’ – as she joked ‘lunch is for sissies’
She revealed that she enjoys a single steak but rarely has time for lunch.
“What is a lunch break?” she said. ‘Lunch is for wimps. I get food in and I work and eat at the same time. There’s no time… sometimes I get a steak.
‘I’m not a sandwich person, I don’t think sandwiches are a real food, it’s what you have for breakfast. Soggy bread is a no-no: I don’t want to touch bread if it’s moist.’
In the past, Mrs Badenoch has described her children – two girls and a boy – as ‘quite right-wing’ because they love meat. She said one of them “thinks being a vegetarian is a very bad thing” and another’s favorite food is “ribs, bacon, sausages, black pudding, lamb chops”.
